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5 Reasons Tech is a Must-Have for Marketing Your Nonprofit’s Golf Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Invite folks on your planning team, board of directors, organizational staff, dedicated volunteers, or partners to share the link to their personal and professional network and broaden your reach even further. Leverage both organic and paid social media channels to help spread the word about the tournament. Email campaigns.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Congrats Mark Horvath & Invisible People TV for Pepsi SXSW Challenge Win

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gary Vee , a social media celebrity champion and many others, helped this cause win the contest and receive a grant of $50,000 for Invisible People TV. Social media celebrity charity endorsements with social media rock stars helped raised the visibility of the contest and as a by-product, the different causes. He doesn't pitch.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

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Because we believe that increasingly we will be seeing engagement move to these social networking models and away from email. “The spam war is a continuous battle between spammers and security vendors,&# said Barracuda chief executive Dean Drako. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

Founded in 1998, Care2, a B-corporation that works with over 700 nonprofits and has more than 15 million members, defines itself as a social action network. Technology and social networking means, according to Paynter, “Community has never before been more important for organization success.”

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy Schwartz invited me to submit a piece for next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants theme on "Using Social Networking Tools." I've been experimenting quite a bit over the last 18 months way too many social networking tools. Katya Andresen has written a fantastic five minute guide to social networking tools.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. Don't email inactive subscribers: Only use quality email addresses; this means they should be permission based, validated, with no typo domains, with no spam traps, with no complainers, and a good fit for your target list. You can enter to win on this site.